Thursday, April 1, 2010

Altered game waste thingy doobrey wotsit

I have no idea what to call this...... so perhaps I'll show you the before picture first.

It's the bit leftover from a game my daughter had- the holes held chipboard cards and are about an inch square. This is how it looks now......

I painted the frame with PVA glue then dabbed with alcohol inks in pesto, terracotta and raisin. Then I stamped over the inks with a stamp (Aspire to be top left square) using archival ink. I stamped something for each aperture onto separate card square and coloured them with Distress Inks in Spiced Marmalade, Peeled Paint, Scattered Straw and Mustard Seed, as well as a tiny bit of a lavender ink that was already on the card. The fairies and castle are my favourite little Lavinia stamps. A couple of the squares are covered in Glossy Accent, and most of them have some Stickles on.

I wasn't too keen on the green and orange chequerboard squares so I heated some UTEE in my Melt pot and poured it in along with some beads. I got some pockmarks on the squares by mistake, but you know what they say- there are no mistakes, so I rubbed some metallic rub on to them to highlight the bubbles.

Finally I sandwiched some orange ribbon between the front and back to make it into a hanging.

This is my challenge entry for this week's Tuesday Taggers- It's a bug's life- there's a little dragonfly on there! This week their challenge is sponsored by The Craft Barn, so I hope I win!!!!

13 comments:

Is this what they call upcycling? its gorgeous. Thank you for buggin' us at TT this week. Did you spot that craft barn are sponsoring us again? A little link to them puts you in the draw for their fab prize.